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Post by lika on Aug 17, 2021 18:10:25 GMT
How the Taliban engineered political collapse in Afghanistan Interviews with Taliban leaders, Afghan politicians, diplomats and observers suggest the Islamist militant movement laid the groundwork for victory long before the events of the last week reut.rs/3z1qNBy
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Post by NomadCris on Aug 18, 2021 17:08:39 GMT
How the Taliban engineered political collapse in Afghanistan Interviews with Taliban leaders, Afghan politicians, diplomats and observers suggest the Islamist militant movement laid the groundwork for victory long before the events of the last week reut.rs/3z1qNByAnyone believe the Taliban suddenly discovered liberalism please fuck off now. Still the same devious stone age women hating cave dwelling head choppers they always were.
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Post by lika on Aug 18, 2021 19:16:23 GMT
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Post by lika on Aug 18, 2021 19:31:21 GMT
How the Taliban engineered political collapse in Afghanistan Interviews with Taliban leaders, Afghan politicians, diplomats and observers suggest the Islamist militant movement laid the groundwork for victory long before the events of the last week reut.rs/3z1qNByAnyone believe the Taliban suddenly discovered liberalism please fuck off now. Still the same devious stone age women hating cave dwelling head choppers they always were. Saw a video yesterday morning , disgusting . Goat shagging ,paedos jumping up and down on a woman and kicking her in the head , dishing out their take on shariah justice. indeed ,anyone that believes liberal Taliban bullshit - fuck right off!
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Post by lika on Aug 20, 2021 20:14:17 GMT
Had to cut and paste cos article has a pay wall. 'We will fight to the last breath': Son of legendary Afghan commander vows to resist Taliban Ahmad Massoud says he is ready for peace but preparing for war with the Taliban" -
He is the son of a legendary Afghan warlord who dreams of peace and of one day becoming a physics teacher.
For now Ahmad Massoud is holed up in a remote Afghan valley, with four helicopters, a few hundred soldiers and a handful of figures from an exiled government on a mission to resist the Taliban – and perhaps live up to his warrior father, the Lion of Panjshir.
The UK-educated 32-year-old gave his first interview on Thursday since the Taliban overran Afghanistan, speaking to The Telegraph and another journalist on a patchy WhatsApp call from the Panjshir Valley – a narrow corridor of land 100 miles north of Kabul leading into the Hindu Kush mountain range.
AHMED SHAH MASSOUD Ahmed Shah Massoud commanded Mujaheddin guerrillas against Soviet invaders from the Panjshir Valley in the 1980s CREDIT: Action Press/Shutterstock “We are telling them that as soon as war breaks out in the Panjshir Valley, then there is no going back,” he said, adding that he had warned the Taliban of his plan to resist an unjust rule.
“It is going to be a very bloody and hard war because the people of Panjshir are going to fight to the very last breath.”
His pledge of resistance seems quixotic – his province is the only one not under the control of a group that has just inherited the accumulated military hardware of a 20-year, $83 billion investment in the collapsed Afghan army. But he’s drawing from an old template laid down by his late father.
In the 1980s, Ahmed Shah Massoud commanded Mujaheddin guerrillas against Soviet invaders from the same valley, an impregnable natural fortress of narrow gorges and mountain streams flanked by snow-capped peaks.
The Lion of Panjshir, as he was known, was a charismatic Tajik leader who united a coalition of ethnic militias into the Northern Alliance, a force that resisted even as the Taliban took control of the rest of Afghanistan in the 1990s.
A darling of western media – and MI6, which provided him covert weaponry – Massoud gained a reputation as a moderate leader with a common touch, a photogenic freedom fighter with a trademark tilt to his pakol hat.
Legend of Massoud His two decades as a commander ended two days before the September 11 2001 attacks, killed at age 48 by a bomb hidden in a video camera by two Al Qaeda agents posing as reporters.
But in the decades since his death, the legend of Massoud has continued to grow. His reputation as a national hero among many Afghans eclipses memories of his participation in the civil war that destroyed Kabul after the Soviet withdrawal and accusations of war crimes committed by his troops.
It is from this long shadow that Mr Massoud is only now beginning to emerge.
As a 14-year-old in 2003, Ahmad Massoud attended a remembrance ceremony for his father in Kabul's sport stadium As a 14-year-old in 2003, Ahmad Massoud attended a remembrance ceremony for his father in Kabul's sport stadium CREDIT: EPA Mr Massoud was just 12 years old when his father died, and made his first public appearance at his funeral.
Massoud’s only son grew up to be his spitting image, but followed in his footsteps reluctantly, he said. After completing his training at Sandhurst in 2012, Mr Massoud read war studies at King’s College London and gained a master’s in international politics at City University.
By 2019 he had been named his father’s successor and returned to the valley to carry on his legacy, canvassing support in Kabul and beyond. He warned of what he said were shortcomings of the peace plan negotiated by US special envoy Zalmay Khalilzad and the dangers of a hasty withdrawal of foreign troops.
Ahmed Shah Masood Ahmed Shah Masood talks to his commanders in the Panjshir valley in 1997 CREDIT: EMMANUEL DUNAND/AFP “Unfortunately they went through with them and I told them that the Afghanistan government would not last weeks, let alone months, after this,” Mr Massoud said. “Unfortunately even I was wrong, because the government didn’t even last days.”
Now, Mr Massoud says he hopes to do what the military might of a superpower could not: hold the Taliban to a negotiated deal.
'If the Taliban support an inclusive government, we will accept it' “Our position is very clear: if the Taliban allow the people of Afghanistan to be a part of the government and have an inclusive government, we will accept it,” he said.
“If the intention is to single-handedly enforce your will on the people and to enforce your own ideas on the people, then we will not accept an unjust government.”
Mr Massoud is suspicious of a general amnesty announced by the Taliban, doubting their assurances that there will be no reprisals. “They are telling us good things but their actions are showing us something else,” he said.
Even as the first protests against the Taliban takeover spread on Thursday, its fighters violently dispersed a protest in Kabul and others in the north-eastern city of Jalalabad and the south-eastern city of Khost.
In anticipation of fighting, Mr Massoud has gathered around him the nucleus of a resistance, including ousted Vice President Amrullah Saleh – who now claims to be Afghanistan’s legitimate leader – hundreds of Afghan commandos, soldiers and pilots, scores of armoured vehicles and piles of equipment.
Over a thousand Afghan civilians, including a number of ethnic minorities, have also fled to the valley, Mr Massoud said.
“With the brutality that the Taliban are showing to our people we are anticipating more waves of refugees coming to the Panjshir valley,” he said, adding that he had received reports of reprisals against provincial government employees.
The Panjshir valley The Panjshir valley is a narrow corridor of land 100 miles north of Kabul leading into the Hindu Kush mountain range CREDIT: SHAH MaraiSHAH MARAI/AFP/GETTY IMAGES “We have a huge humanitarian crisis ahead of us,” he said. “We cannot manage to feed the civilians and the soldiers.”
But if the Panjshir is to form a rump state of resistance to the Taliban, it is smaller even than the area controlled by his father in 1996, when the Taliban first took control of Kabul.
Then the “students” from Kandahar were welcomed for bringing peace by some war-weary Afghans, even as the austere militants imposed draconian edicts against women working, girls studying, children flying kites and anyone listening to music.
While his father was able to rely on supply lines to the border, Mr Massoud said he was surrounded. “They have their troops around our valley,” he said.
Despite the odds, Mr Massoud remains defiant.
Afghanistan Amrullah Saleh, Afghanistan's ousted vice president, has claimed to be the country's legitimate leader after president Ashraf Ghani fled to the UAE CREDIT: SAJJAD HUSSAIN/AFP/Getty Images “Because of its strategic position, because it is a sort of united nations or united people, and because of its history and symbolic character, the Panjshir Valley managed to resist,” he said.
But if his struggle is to have any chance of success, Mr Massoud needs international help.
“This is the pressure the world needs to put on the Taliban: You will not have legitimacy until you are part of an inclusive government,” he said. “Until then no Taliban government is legitimate.”
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Post by NomadCris on Aug 20, 2021 20:43:27 GMT
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Post by lika on Aug 21, 2021 16:28:55 GMT
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Post by lika on Sept 12, 2021 19:10:11 GMT
Bit pissed and just painted my nails,lol . black and purple. To add to my many other professions,I am now a nail technician . Check it out infidels!
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Post by lika on Sept 12, 2021 19:18:59 GMT
can't find photo . am sat with painted nails in hessian shorts and have whipped myself with nettles to attone for my sins.Drug induced pleasures of the flesh , being the worst.
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Post by lika on Sept 12, 2021 19:36:59 GMT
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Post by ma bungo on Sept 13, 2021 8:29:48 GMT
Looks like you bin clumsy with a hammer ?
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Post by lika on Sept 13, 2021 21:18:46 GMT
Bit hurt by that bungo's, I spent complete minutes choosing colour selection and executing my nail art whist sat on the floor, maybe a tad squiffy and giggling .Varnish remover was out first thing , would have got a bit of stick from the oinks at the factory I'm at the next day or so, doing research for my think tank about the working class.
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Post by oldkeith on Sept 16, 2021 21:02:48 GMT
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Post by lika on Sept 29, 2021 17:27:23 GMT
White stag shot dead by police after running wild around Merseyside streets. Despicable bastarts. www.google.com/amp/s/news.sky.com/story/amp/white-stag-shot-dead-by-police-after-running-wild-around-merseyside-streets-12420330Someone else's words on this subject - "In the wild, albino creatures have a significantly higher than average mortality rate. Their inability to blend into their natural habitats means juvenile prey species such as deer are much more likely to be picked off by predators, and never make it to adulthood. Adult white stags must therefore be the most cunning, the most quick, the most hardy and the most well adapted in order to overcome their inherent handicap. In making it to adulthood, these animals have to overcome the toughest conditions their species will ever face, and therefore represent a supreme specimen amongst their kind. A pox upon the Merseyside Police who will no doubt pay a high price for what they have done." The White Stag is symbolic of purity and innocence, which makes the British State’s execution of this beautiful creature all the more symbolic. A corrupt and soulless regime revealing its true colours. These bastards have truly cursed themselves in doing something like this. But the White Stag has always been symbolic of great change. A messenger from the Otherworld, the Stag heralds in a new era for our society. The Government may try to stop it, but there is huge change on the way." "
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Post by bigbear67 on Oct 4, 2021 21:33:38 GMT
www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/now-queen-needs-lorry-driver-25121312Don't all rush at once😒 This story followed one about HGV salaries, saying the average driver wage is now between 35k & 50k plus signup bonus..... Dunno what sort of driver they expect to get for just over 20k. Candidate is also expected to be able to operate forklifts too, as well as manually handling boxes etc every working day. Surely the bloody royal family can't be expecting to deprive the supply chain of another driver then offer such a paltry wage? Fucking insult if you ask me.....🐻😡
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